Paladino Predicts "God-Like" Andrew Cuomo’s political "Demise" over NY's hasty Gun Law --- Promises more GOP primaries for "...sitting Republicans who aren't doing their jobs..."

Paladino, a gun owner, starts by telling interviewer that he would not be abiding by the recent anti-gun laws  ---  and finishes by promising Republican primaries against RINOs

Continued political activism by GOP firebrand Carl Paladino very bad news for Dean Skelos and Marty Golden

Carl Paladino spoke yesterday on YNN’s Capital Tonight program ( See "SHOTS FIRED - Carl Paladino Predicts ‘God-Like’ Andrew Cuomo’s Demise" by Jill Colvin 6/12/13, NY Observer/Politicker [http://politicker.com/2013/06/carl-paladino-predicts-god-like-andrew-cuomos-demise/]).

Mr. Paladino had been in Albany yesterday to protest the SAFE Act, Governor Cuomo's signal piece of gun control legislation, which put a raft of new regulations on the ownership, use and sale of firearms in New York State.  Cuomo's  SAFE Act was passed as part of a cave-in in the GOP controlled State Senate in  a wave of hysteria immediately following the Sandy Hook shootings in Connecticutt.  Paladino believes various aspects of the Safe Act are unconstitutional , and that they will be overturned in federal court.

Paladino, a gun owner, began telling the interviewer, Liz Benjamin, that he. himself,  would be not abiding by the legislation. However, when asked specifically which provisions of the SAFE Act he was flouting, he went silent....  Then he acknowledged that he was indeed limiting  the number of bullets in his clips and magazines; and declared, “I’m a person who advocates compliance with good laws.”

Never known for mincing words, he hammered Governor Andrew Cuomo as “self-absorbed” and “egotistical;  and then Paladino declared that Cuomo's SAFE Act gun legislation would be the biggest factor leading  to his demise as governor of New York State.  This is the way the former candidate for governor put it to Mr. Cuomo:  “We have a higher law in this land. People who are God-like, like Cuomo—this deity thing—they don’t believe in rules, they don’t believe in the Constitution. Well, we believe in the Constitution.”  Mr. Paladino finished the thought  by thanking the governor “for giving us this opportunity to unify and have a common issue that will eventually result in his demise from politics.”

The former gubernatorial candidate also raised the often-repeated criticism, about the secretive manner in which Mr. Cuomo passed his landmark anti-gun legislation.  The chosen process gave neither the public nor  lawmakers much of chance to consider all of the gun control legislation’s language or its impact and implications. In the instance of the hasty passage of the SAFE Act, Mr. Cuomo had signed a special order called a message of necessity, which allowed the legislature to expedite its passage of the controversial bill.  Paladino then lambasted his former opponent some more.  “What is wrong with this man? ...  The people are entitled to better than that … They’re entitled to have an opportunity to have it vetted and to comment on it. And that’s the nonsense. That’s the infringement—if you want to call it –the terrible infringement upon the basic rights of the people of this country. He’s so self-absorbed, he’s so egotistical that we went out there and made this huge mistake that’s going to be the end of his career.”

Despite the harsh words for Mr. Cuomo, Mr. Paladino emphasized that he wouldn’t be making another run for governor himself.  And his remarks weren't just critical of the governor.  Carl Paladino had lots to say about the New York State Republican party.

The Buffalo Republican activist and school board member started by describing the NYS GOP as being in a state of disarray.  According to Paladino, “We have so man RINOs [Republicans in name only] around in this party that we can’t really identify the good Republicans from the bad Republicans.” Then he vowed to continue using his cash to fund primary challenges against sitting Republicans he feels aren’t doing their jobs. “We have no opposition. And that’s why we have rampant corruption in our government.”

When Carl Paladino talks about funding primary races against RINO Republicans and sitting Republicans who aren't doing their jobs, a Dean Skelos favorite, State Senator Martin Golden, has to be high on Paladino's list.

If only there were a solid pro-Second Amendment Republican somewhere in Brooklyn's 22nd SD to take a run at Golden -- that and some Paladino cash could make a very interesting summer in 2014.